Welcome to another Web Developer Monthly. This month's edition contains news about Visual Studio 2019, really cool Goolge performance tools, jaw dropping CodePens and more.
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I'll admit that personally I've never had a need in all my professional life to print code from Visual Studio but I know a few devs and project managers that do. I suppose it can be handy when you want to view something offline or hand out code samples for a meeting.
A dev buddy was in touch recently and asked me how she could print from Visual Studio Code. Having never even looked for this option before I just assumed it existed where all Print options live in 'File -> Print...' or Ctrl+P but quickly realized that neither of these options exist in VS Code.
Image maps are a handy way to add clickable zones to your images. When creating an image map from scratch most people would fire up their image editor of choice and work out the click zones using the editor.
This can be ok when creating an image map from scratch but if you have to troubleshoot an image map issue or if you need to 'see' the clickable zones that really isn’t a workable solution.
If you're using Visual Studio Code and want to share a screenshot of what you're working on I highly recommend using Polacode.
It can be a little tricky following the steps from the official gif (as seen above) but essentially you just do the following:
As a developer you've probably become quite familiar with many shortcuts like Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V....and unfortunately Ctrl+Z!
But did you know that pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc will directly open the Task Manager? Very handy for when you need to kill that infinite loop you just created.
I noticed recently that my current version of Chrome was acting strange in Windows 10.
When loading web pages with a lot of content I noticed that random text or images would be missing, jumbled up or I'd see green flashes on screen where animations should be happening.
